WASHINGTON — FBI technicians have recovered some of the personal and work-related emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton said were deleted from a computer server she used at home during her years as secretary of state, a federal government official said
WASHINGTON — FBI technicians have recovered some of the personal and work-related emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton said were deleted from a computer server she used at home during her years as secretary of state, a federal government official said Wednesday.
The official, speaking anonymously because the FBI investigation is continuing, cautioned that it could be months before the computer forensics work is completed and the emails are recovered and examined.
The bureau has opened an investigation to determine whether any classified government material went through her personal computer, and whether any of that material may have been breached by outside foreign governments.
For Clinton, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, the news Wednesday could have ominous political overtones. It means the FBI findings may not be finished until later this year or early next year, around the time of the first caucus and primary voting in the 2016 campaign.
The findings are the latest sign that Clinton’s email scandal is not going away any time soon. It also raises the possibility of future embarrassing disclosures or evidence that she deleted work-related emails after first maintaining they were “personal.”
Clinton has said the emails were deleted from the server after her aides separated personal and work messages. Last month, the server was given to FBI lab technicians for their review.
News of the initial FBI recovery of the emails was first reported by Bloomberg News.
